Faunus
Roman · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Roman rustic god of forests, flocks and prophecy; identified with Pan.
Children
Domains
- forests and flocks
Powers
- Delivers prophecy to suppliants sleeping in his grove
- Protects herds and fields as woodland Lupercus
Epithets
- Faunus Lupercus 'Faunus the Wolf-warder' — aspect honoured at the Lupercalia (Feb 15)Ovid, Fasti 2.267-302 (primary)
- Fatuus 'The Speaker/Prophet' — Faunus as oracular voice of the woodsVarro, On the Latin Language 6.55 (primary); Vergil, Aeneid 7.81-103 (primary)
- Lupercus 'Wolf-warder' — Faunus in his Lupercalia aspectOvid, Fasti 2.267-302 (primary)
- Inuus by-name of Faunus as fertilizing force of the flocksLivy 1.5.2 (primary)
Relations
- descendant of: SaturnFaunus is great-grandson/descendant of Saturn via Picus (Picus not in registry).Vergil, Aeneid 7.45-49 (Latinus son of Faunus, Faunus son of Picus son of Saturn) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Ovid, Fasti 2.193; Virgil, Aeneid 7.81 (primary)